On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 07:56:05 UTC, foobar wrote:
The latest case was the huge properties debate and its offshoots regarding ref semantics which I didn't even bother participate in. Bartosz developed an ownership system for D to address all the safety issues raised by ref *years ago* and it was rejected due to complexity. Now, Andrei tries to achieve similar safety guaranties by giving ref the semantics of borrowed pointers. It all seems to me like trying to build an airplane without wings cause they are too complex. Rust on the other hand already integrated an ownership system and is already far ahead of D's design. D had talked about macros *years ago* and rust already implemented them.
Do you have a link to that ? I know that he did, but never could find the proposal itself.
